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Foochownese en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (US, dated) A person from Fuzhou.
   • The patient was a 53-year-old, married, Foochownese housewife. 1988 September, Yat-San Tsai, Shi-Chiy Su, Tai-Te Wang, Chien-Tien Hsu, Yun-Nan Lin, “Primary choriocarcinoma in the uterine cervix: report of 4 cases”, in The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, volume 14, number 3:
   • That the Chinese still do it when they are away from their homeland with regrettable result to themselves, is evident from cases reported by Manson (1880) in a Foochownese, by Koo (1924) in a Shantunguese, Seymour (? Cantonese), from South America (Cantonese), from the Philippines (Amoynese), and recently in this hospital in a native of Kiangsu who got the infection in Yokohama. 1930, J. H. Liu, Lien-tê Wu, Yui C. Voonping, The National Medical Journal of China - Volume 16, page 100:
   • Other elements are Hakkas, some Foochownese, some mixtures of Chinese and aborigines in the south, a few remaining Japanese, and many refugees from East China and other parts of China. 1939, Hawaiian Academy of Sciences, Proceedings - Issues 13-30, page 103:
   • During their first few years in Shantung, Hung and his brothers continued their education under their Foochownese tutor, Master Hsieh. 1987, Susan Chan Egan, William Hung, A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung, (1893-1980), →ISBN, page 1987:

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Foochownese en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (US) The dialect spoken in the area around Fuzhou.
   • Cui Sung (Foochownese Romanization); 1874, Zoology Reprints and Separata, Etc - Volume 112:
   • The character 林, for instance, has the same meaning for all, although it is pronounced Lin in Pekinese, Ling in Foochownese, Liem in Foganese, Lam in Cantonese, etc. 1963, Vincent Tsing Ching Lin, Adult Education in People's Republic of China, 1950-1958, →OCLC, page 64: